Explaining NAMA Effectiveness

Abstract The chapter considers how Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) have been undertaken in the three-case study countries of Uganda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Relative to other climate finance instruments considered in this book, NAMA implementation has been the most problematic as it has not attracted funding necessary to get mitigation actions off the ground. Consequently, the chapter focuses on programming elements, including NAMA proposals submitted to the UNFCCC by Tanzania, Uganda, and Moldova as well as the amount of domestic co-financing committed to them as well as anticipated evaluation frameworks for NAMAs and state strategic coordination approaches. The chapter finds Uganda and, especially, Moldova to have sought to program NAMAs to a surprising degree in spite of almost no climate finance being offered for implementation. In contrast, Tanzania has been almost completely unengaged with the NAMA process.